[CLUE-Tech] cygwin question

[David Anselmi]

Sean LeBlanc wrote:
[...]
> That's weird. I thought for sure that Cygwin came with one. If you run
> setup, is there one available? I just did a brief bit of Googling, and I
> found one "using XFree with Cygwin article", that mentioned /usr/bin/telnet.
> Sorry for the long link, this is the PDF-converted-to-HTML version:
> 
> http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:ivLMgsQQrvQC:xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-xfree-ug.pdf+cygwin+telnet+xterm&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8
> 
> Isn't the telnet on Windoze a GUI app? Does typing telnet in bash launch the
> application?
> 

I guess the cygwin telnet is in the inetutils package--I'm not using it 
(don't do much telnet these days).  It's probably worth a try for Jeff 
if he needs it.

On Win2k and XP (at least) telnet is command line (in cmd.exe and bash). 
    Don't know whether the gui one would work from an xterm.

Dave